Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Monday for the House Judiciary Committee to hold a public hearing on “cancel culture,” arguing that the committee should investigate what he claimed was a wave of “censorship” occurring in private companies, on college campuses, and other facets of American life.
Jordan, the committee’s ranking member, did not give a reason in his letter why the Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with overseeing the federal court system and law enforcement, would have purview over this issue.
The Ohio Republican argued instead in his letter that “cancel culture’s long-term consequences to our democracy and our constitutional framework are serious and substantial.” He referenced a number of issues including former President Trump’s ban from Twitter in the wake of the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
“The wave of cancel culture spreading the nation is a fundamental threat to free speech rights in the United States,” he wrote.
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“a fundamental threat to free speech rights in the United States”
How many ignorant Republicans do we have to read on this site? There is no right to free speech in any private setting. That means a workplace, or a privately owned internet site. The right is that the government can’t stifle you (except in very very rare circumstances).
I strongly support cancel culture. I want to cancel Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, Linda Sarsour, Andrew Wakefield, Joseph Mercola, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
I agree with you that those you mentioned should be canceled but we live in the United States, a country of laws and a Constitution. No one should be canceled including the ignorant DemocRATs reading this comment.